Esophageal cancer CT
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Abdominal CT scan may be diagnostic of esophageal cancer.
CT
- Eccentric or circumferential wall thickening >5 mm
- Peri-esophageal soft tissue and fat stranding
- Dilated fluid and debris filled esophageal lumen is proximal to an obstructing lesion
- Tracheobronchial invasion appears as displacement of the airway (usually the trachea or left mainstem bronchus) as a result of mass effect by the oesophageal tumour
- Aortic invasion